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Default Detroit 353 diesel -- aluminum block? How to tell?

Phantman wrote:
Detroit 4-53. It was a 212 cu in, 4 cylinder,
2 stroke, 140hp, with a blower.


Tim:
I take it that when you say "blower" you are taking about a
turbocharger?


Not sure why the operator's manual and literature call it a "blower"
rather than a turgocharger. Looks like a turbocharger to me.

Rick